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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

A marriage announcement in the National Aegis, July 21, 1847, on page 3, read, "Married in this town, July 13, by Rev. George P. Smith, Ephraim Chamberlain to Maria A. McFarland." Worcester marriage records confirm the information. Ephraim was born in West Brookfield about 1822, the son of Eli Chamberlain and Achsah Forbes. He lived in Worcester where he was a farmer. He was a member of the Worcester County Horticultural Society; as well as, the Worcester, and New England Agricultural Societies. He also served as President of the Tatnuck Benevolent and Literary Association. Ephraim and Maria had five children including Frederick H. Chamberlain who later become Judge of the Worcester County Probate Court.

Ephraim's sister, Achsah Juliet Chamberlain, married ten years later on July 13, 1857 in Cuyahoga, Ohio, Jared H. Clark. Juliet and Jared had a daughter Lucy, who married Edward Hayward in Cook County, Illinois in 1887, and a son Allan. Juliet may be the Juliet Clark who died in London, England in 1905. (Lucy and her husband lived in England in 1901.)

Ephraim and Achsah Juliet Chamberlain were older siblings of Daniel Henry Chamberlain who was governor of South Carolina in the 1870's.